System pauses for several minutes when starting udev. The message "No buffer space available" printed to the console.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System pauses for several minutes when starting udev.
    Starting udev: Wait timeout. Will continue in the backgroun[FAILED]

udevd[948]: get_netlink_msg: unable to receive kenel netlink message: No buffer space available

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • SAN

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